Site Name: Clearbury Ring
Civil Parish: Downton; Odstock
Grid Ref: 415220, 124420

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort.

Details:
A hillfort with a single bank and ditch, one break at N end of SW side and a causeway here over the ditch. Dr Clay quotes some ovens and strikealights were found. Corndryers?


Sources:

Ordnance Survey Record card SU12SE002; Dr Clay Letter 7 12 1923 1923 Clay, R C C
Victoria County History 1 1 265(97) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
The Ancient History of Wiltshire Vol 1, 231 1812 Hoare, Sir R.C.

Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office.

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston